Though the date isn’t set, Cataclysm beta testing will begin soon. Possibly the end of the month. To sign up for a chance to participate, go to your battle.net accounts and look for the ‘beta profile settings’ link. This will send your system specifications to Blizzard and put you in the drawing. Good luck!
Ahhh, Lazy Sunday. A day to rest and recharge for the week. Unless, that is, you happen to be on the Dragon*Con MMORPG track staff. If you are and your name just happens to be Michael C. McGreevy (which mine is), Sunday is a day for digging up a bunch of links about geek stuff and making a post with snarky comments about them.
Which, I suppose, isn’t all that bad in the grand scheme of things. He could have asked me to comb his back hair or something. Yeech.
Anyway, here’s your Monday Geek Roundup you lucky dogs! I tried to collect news throughout the entire week instead of just gathering stuff that popped up over the weekend this time, so you may have already caught some of this.
Yeah, I know, we promised…
This version of the Snarkcast is a little more “free form” than usual. Of course we make fun of the usual suspects (World of Warcraft, Aion, and NCSoft in general) as well as give you some recent news from Dragon*Con and the games we happen to be playing at the moment. (Both Krystalle and I are kinda hooked on Fallen Earth right now)
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy. Now that we’re a little closer to the holidays, we should start getting more Dragon*Con related information to throw your way as well as having a little more time to actually play all of the games we love to play.
(Opening music, courtesy of And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, “Isis Unveiled”)
Yeah, I realize that I’m going to run out of sequel titles to use in these posts and that I’ll be repeating myself soon. I’ll deal with that problem when I get there.
It’s been a crazy week in the land of SnarkCast, and Krys and Grim have already been overtaken by events given that we recorded this podcast before:
- The Dragon*Con Staff Meeting last weekend.
- Blizzard was allowed to partially re-launch WoW in China.
Oh well, them’s the breaks. In any event, enjoy the podcast (show notes are included after the jump). Thanks for listening, and we’ll be recording a new podcast very soon.
After a month off to tend to various injuries (Krys hurt her wrist, and Grim busted up his knee), Krys and Grim are back with another SnarkCast. Everyone and everything is fair game for our snarktastic duo this time around. If you, or the game you love, find yourselves in our cross-hairs, take solace in the fact that you aren’t alone. We snark because we love. (Except Gold Farmers, nobody likes those little idiots.)
In this week’s show, we snarkify (otherwise known as “show notes”):
- E3
- Booth Babes
- Underwear as Swag
- A “Stripper Game”
- News from Sony Online Entertainment
- Free Realms
- The Agency
- Hong Kong Shuffle
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Global Agenda
- Bogus “Awards” given at E3
- DC*MMO takes a studio tour
- “Open All Night” demo at Dragon*Con
- Sony Fan Faire
- Star Wars Galaxies
- Zombies
- User-created content
- The Gungan Gun
- SOE’s big party at Dragon*Con
- Star Wars Galaxies
- Blizzard
- No LAN play for Starcraft II
- What’s Wrong With WoW?
- Special Interview w/Dr. Tran
- WoW Faction changes
- WoW may be an MMO with training wheels, but it serves an important purpose.
- EVE Online
- Age of Conan
- Huge upcoming patch
- “Fixing” stats and itemization
- Problems with questing in AoC
- Warhammer Online
- How to “Kill 10 rats” correctly
- Public quests
- Mark Jacobs leaving Mythic
- Mythic is now part of Bioware
- How will Bioware change WAR?
- City of Heroes
- Issue 15 is coming
- The 5th Column is back!
- New costumes and facial options
- Is it better to look good? or have uber stats on gear?
- Dragon*Con stuff
- Schedule is done!
- 50 panels and events scheduled on MMO track
- WoW trivia event being combined into Hardcore MMO Trivia contest
- 5 different parties planned on the MMO track this year.
- Closing Music and gag reel.



